Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c9.65

c9.65

⁴⁰ The first of these respects the *aphelion* of Jupiter, which, in the tables, is supposed to have a retrograde motion of 15° in 200,000 years⁶¹ and to have been, at the epoch of 1491, in longitude 5ˢ, 21°, 40', 20", from the beginning of the Zodiac. It follows, therefore, that in the year 3102 before Christ, the